Tuesday, November 05, 2013

22 years ago today, my mother died. About a year ago, I was in an evacuation shelter due to Hurricane Sandy. This year, I am still in Rockaway Park (after detours in Jamaica, Midtown, the west side of Colorado Springs, Downtown Austin, and Eureka Springs, Arkansas). I gained and lost 2 jobs. And now I am big into the music production stuff. Below is my latest song and the politically charged lyrics to it.
Lyrics- Get It Right (with appropriate photos)

Verse 1
New York is a guaranteed right to shelter city, but there are people who would rather sleep in the tunnels, train stations, and streets than go to the shelters
in Austin there are 10 homeless people for every available homeless shelter bed
and those that don't win the bed lottery are told to sleep outside knowing full well they can be arrested
get it right

Verse 2
Obamacare passed solely on the votes of one party
it claimed to help lower costs by forcing people to buy insurance
Needing insurance when you're sick is the main problem with healthcare
and they're doubling down on what is wrong and increasing costs for everyone

Verse 3

since 1973 over 50 million have died because of abortion
yet many say infanticide is a god-given right
guess they forgot about Doctor Gosnell
and who planned parenthood was meant to control
if Margaret had her way, Barry would never had been born

Verse 4

hey Bill hey Bill or is it Wilhelm?
quit listening to the ACORNS and the nuts
this city has enough well-intentioned problems
without your nutty leftist friends making it worse

Verse 5

big city not so bright lights
how could they confuse an OVH with an M400
breaking down after 6 years
now they want to switch to L E D
but they've only got one chance and 200 million
to get it right and fix the lights

Verse 6
who would have thought that learning would become a money pit
benefits for all those not learning
everyone wants to teach but no one can afford to learn
you think you should mortgage your future to learn the present

Verse 7
does it make sense to believe that stupid peacock
when they blew up that truck and the truth
west side alphabets are too flashy
and the canine on 6th wants money for what should be free
can't you see the truth

Verse 8

whats the difference between a patriot and a liar
between waterboarding and public extortion
whats a few trillion between friends
and we'd rather know what Lindsay or Brad or what the fox says than the truth
get it right MFers/scumbags get it right before it's too late

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About Me

I am an electronic music producer, blogger, writer, commentator, photographer, and an amateur video producer. I have videos on Youtube and 70+ original tracks on HearThis.At and on Soundcloud, as well as a mp3 album/single sales page on Bandcamp and 3 submissions on Indaba Music. My most liked music tracks on Soundcloud are my first original house song, "Up" and a house tune I released at the start of 2014 called "Frustration". 2 of my most liked videos were both shot in May 2013, the first time I stayed in Austin, TX- a video of President Obama's motorcade taken from outside the shelter I was staying at (which was also the first video I ever took on an Android phone), and a film project about Downtown Austin's 6th Street entertainment district. In 2014, I worked in a warehouse in North Austin and contributed music and other stuff to an Austin-based art/media project about low-income and homeless matters called "Am I Invisible". I lived in the NYC area from 1996 to 2007, 2008 to 2010, 2011 to 2014, and from February 2015 to February 2016 after a residential dispute in Colorado Springs cost me my affordable housing (in a probably illegal eviction).